Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-19
LOCAL BREyITIES.

4 speCidi Train Vi Twelve cars OF oranges
and one OF cabbage went East last evening.
There are messages at the Western
Union Telegraph Office for Ed. H. Fleming,
Fred. H. Hart and James Fogarty.
| The Sacramento river had receded an
| inch in the twenty-four hours ending YES
terday afternoon, and registered 10 feet s
inches.
A meeting of the Board of Supervisors
will be held this morning to canvass the
vote cast in this county at the recent con-
/ stitutional amendment election.
A meeting of the Capital Turf Club will
! be held at the Golden Eagle Hotel at s
o'clock this evening, when the entries for
the races Of the spring meeting will be
opened.
A. Fontana, by officer Rider and Pat Duff
| fly, by Deputy Sheriff Coffee, both for dis
turbing the peace; Peter Schuman, by local
officer Cafferty, for battery.
| At the session of the Grand Lodge of the
Knights of Pythias, held at Santa Rosa last
week, j. w. Guthrie, of this city, was
elected one of the State Deputies Theo-
dore Schumacher was elected Deputy for
this city.
| Antoine +. Silva yesterday swore to q
complaint in Justice Devine's Court, accus-
ing Manuel De Costa, living down towards
| Freeport, of threats against life, alleging
that De Costa had threatened 10 blow the
top of plaintiff s head off,
Friends of officer Rowland last evening
presented him with beautiful pistol as a
| token of their esteem. 1t is open to the OBJ
lection of being more ornamental than
| useful as a weapon, being built of tin, but
| it can be used to fine advantage as an cave
| spout
| The Medical Society ofthe State of Califor-
| mia will meet in seventeenth annual session
| in B'nai Birth Hall, 120 Eddy street, San
Francisco, at 10 o'clock A. NJ tomorrow,
and continue in session three days. Mem
bers of the medical profession, both resi-
dent and visiting, are invited to attend,
The United States Railroad Commission
ers returned Sunday evening from their in
spection of recently constructed track at
the northern end of the California and Ore
gon Railroad and left by special train for
Napa at 2:30 yesterday morning, expecting
to arrive in San Francisco in the evening
The Governor has appointed William S.
Enos, of Inyo county, Director of Agri-
cultural District No. IS, vice n. d. Arnot,
who failed to qualify. He also appointed
as Directors for District No. IA, l.. K Bald
win, ]. FL. Logan, J. F. Cunningham,
Henry Mel, d. W. Grover, a. Noble and
o. H. Willoughby-all of Santa Cruz
county.
The average Signal Service temperature
| in Sacramento yesterday was 5470, which
| is 1.7o cooler than the average hperature
for that date in nine years. The highest
| and lowest temperature was 500 and Az,
with fresh to brisk southerly winds during
the early morning and during the evening
DnrlnO vha fOrannnn and off no
wind was fresh from the north, and the
weather clear throughout the day.
D. F. Flynn, new catcher for the A. &
| G. Baseball Club of Stockton, arrived yes
| terday morning from the East. Lorrigan,
the present phenomenal pitcher of the
| club, will act as change pitcher, short-stop
| or one of the outtelders, being capable in
any place. The Stocktonians are showing
great deal of energy and enterprise in
| getting together nine that will be equal
| to any in the State, having not only good
playing ability but perfect discipline.
| At the present time there appears to be
| great demand for Chinese laborers, and
| farm hands and similar employees are hard
| to get and feel independent as to wages
| A Chinaman endeavored TO secure ten yes
terday for work on his potato ranch on
| the Yolo side of the river, but they were
/
man, acting as agent for a wealthy land
owner, tried TO get fifty, but could not
| obtain any, and went north to look for
| them.
| A few days ago little advertising paper,
called the Advertiser, published an item in
which Peter Schuman, one of the proprie-
| tors of the Forrest saloon, was spoken of
very abusiyely. About o'clock last ever
ing Mr.. Schuman met the publisher or edi
tor of the paper ]. Bleiman, whom be be-
lieved to be responsible for the item, at
| Fourth and X streets, and pitched into
him, the result being that the assailant
was arrested by local officer Cafferty for
battery.
Ex-poice officer Farren received infor-
nation few DAYS ago that his brother
| Edward, proprietor of the Sweet Briar
| Ranch, near Hazel Creek, Shasta county,
on the California and Oregon Railroad, was
| very seriously i'll of congestion of the
lungs, having caught severe cold during
q recent snow storm. He Immediately
went up there and assisted in doing all that
was possible for the relief of the sick man,
but death resulted last Friday. The de-
| ceased was formerly a resident OF Sacra-
mento, and was greatly esteemed by many
| friends.
| Yesterday the work of removing the
| pews from st. Rose Church, Seventh and
X streets, to the new temporary church ed
ifce on Twelfth street, between ] and X,
was commenced. The pews will be placed
in the new building in about the same po-
sition they occupied in the old, to avoid
| confusion on the part of parishioners. The
| concluding service in the Seventh and X
streets structure was held last Sunday.
Bishop Manogue and the Government
architect will be in town to-day, and they
will probably consult and decide upon va
rious matters relating TO the tearing down
of the old buildings, etc.